Business demography, European standard; legal form, SIC2008

Business demography, European standard; legal form, SIC2008

SIC 2008 Legal forms Periods Enterprises Total (aantal) Enterprises Births (aantal) Enterprises Deaths (aantal) Enterprise population Persons employed (aantal) Enterprise population Employees (aantal) Newly born enterprises Persons employed (aantal) Newly born enterprises Employees (aantal) Non-surviving enterprises Persons employed (aantal) Non-surviving enterprises Employees (aantal)
271 Manufacture of electric motors etc. Total legal forms all nationalities 2022* . . . . . . . . .
271 Manufacture of electric motors etc. Sole proprietorship 2022* . . . . . . . . .
271 Manufacture of electric motors etc. Limited liability enterprises 2022* . . . . . . . . .
271 Manufacture of electric motors etc. Partnership, etc. 2022* . . . . . . . . .
291 Manufacture of motor vehicles Total legal forms all nationalities 2022* . . . . . . . . .
291 Manufacture of motor vehicles Sole proprietorship 2022* . . . . . . . . .
291 Manufacture of motor vehicles Limited liability enterprises 2022* . . . . . . . . .
291 Manufacture of motor vehicles Partnership, etc. 2022* . . . . . . . . .
304 Manufacture of fighting vehicles Total legal forms all nationalities 2022* . . . . . . . . .
304 Manufacture of fighting vehicles Sole proprietorship 2022* . . . . . . . . .
304 Manufacture of fighting vehicles Limited liability enterprises 2022* . . . . . . . . .
304 Manufacture of fighting vehicles Partnership, etc. 2022* . . . . . . . . .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Total legal forms all nationalities 2022* 39,347 2,404 2,264 147,903 118,757 1,715 402 1,194 149
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Sole proprietorship 2022* 24,876 1,761 1,438 28,302 8,009 1,033 20 740 24
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Limited liability enterprises 2022* 8,406 365 469 104,591 103,175 321 290 89 82
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Partnership, etc. 2022* 6,065 278 357 15,010 7,573 361 92 364 43
451 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Total legal forms all nationalities 2022* . . . . . . . . .
451 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Sole proprietorship 2022* . . . . . . . . .
451 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Limited liability enterprises 2022* . . . . . . . . .
451 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Partnership, etc. 2022* . . . . . . . . .
452 Specialised repair of motor vehicles Total legal forms all nationalities 2022* . . . . . . . . .
452 Specialised repair of motor vehicles Sole proprietorship 2022* . . . . . . . . .
452 Specialised repair of motor vehicles Limited liability enterprises 2022* . . . . . . . . .
452 Specialised repair of motor vehicles Partnership, etc. 2022* . . . . . . . . .
453 Sale of motor vehicle parts. Total legal forms all nationalities 2022* . . . . . . . . .
453 Sale of motor vehicle parts. Sole proprietorship 2022* . . . . . . . . .
453 Sale of motor vehicle parts. Limited liability enterprises 2022* . . . . . . . . .
453 Sale of motor vehicle parts. Partnership, etc. 2022* . . . . . . . . .
454 Sale and repair of motorcycles Total legal forms all nationalities 2022* . . . . . . . . .
454 Sale and repair of motorcycles Sole proprietorship 2022* . . . . . . . . .
454 Sale and repair of motorcycles Limited liability enterprises 2022* . . . . . . . . .
454 Sale and repair of motorcycles Partnership, etc. 2022* . . . . . . . . .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Total legal forms all nationalities 2022* 85,055 4,034 6,489 560,975 526,142 2,652 1,154 2,072 631
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Sole proprietorship 2022* 31,769 1,515 2,176 26,282 6,201 901 18 821 39
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Limited liability enterprises 2022* 41,654 2,041 3,087 505,636 500,858 1,151 1,005 512 465
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Partnership, etc. 2022* 11,632 478 1,226 29,057 19,083 600 131 740 128
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Total legal forms all nationalities 2022* 175,723 17,885 17,831 913,700 808,961 12,935 1,791 6,872 1,254
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Sole proprietorship 2022* 117,595 13,449 11,346 103,675 43,972 8,174 517 3,355 266
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Limited liability enterprises 2022* 20,660 1,400 1,610 676,703 672,289 1,044 946 620 588
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Partnership, etc. 2022* 37,468 3,036 4,875 133,322 92,700 3,717 328 2,898 400
771 Renting of motor vehicles Total legal forms all nationalities 2022* 1,420 163 168 8,684 8,229 145 . 38 .
771 Renting of motor vehicles Sole proprietorship 2022* 526 65 47 267 25 . 0 14 0
771 Renting of motor vehicles Limited liability enterprises 2022* 663 63 73 8,157 8,113 79 . 3 .
771 Renting of motor vehicles Partnership, etc. 2022* 231 35 48 260 91 . . 21 .
Source: CBS.
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Table explanation


This table includes information on business demography according to the European standard. Figures in this table are also submitted in this form to Eurostat. Information concerns the population of active enterprises, enterprise births and deaths, and the 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 year survivors after birth, broken down by size class based on number of employees and by the National Classification of Economic Activity 2008 (NCEA 2008, based on NACE Rev 2.0). Data also includes persons employed and employees in active enterprises, births and deaths, as well as persons employed for surviving births at the start and end of the survival period.

Data available from: 2010

Status of the figures:
The figures in this table are final for 2010 to 2021. The figures for 2022 are provisional.
Only the data on Dissolved companies for 2022 will be adjusted.

Changes as of October 16, 2024:
The provisional figures for 2022 have been added.

When will new figures be released?
Figures on a new reporting year (T – 2) will be published in July of the current year T.

Description topics

Enterprises
Total
Enterprise:
The actual transactor in the production process characterised by independence in deciding on that process and in offering its products to third parties.

It follows from this definition, and in particular from the element of independence, that an enterprise can comprise more than one establishment, but also more than one legal unit. (Legal units include both natural and legal persons.) This is the case when the separate establishments or legal units do not operate independently. Conversely, it is possible to distinguish between different parts within a legal unit that operate independently in terms of production. These then constitute as many enterprises as defined. The latter is especially the case for larger groups with diverse activities.
When a unit thus defined extends over several countries, the Dutch part will be considered as a whole company for the sake of national statistics.

In official CBS terminology the enterprise as defined here is called the enterprise unit (BE), so that there is no confusion with the term enterprise used in common parlance, which is not very precise in this respect.

The statistical unit enterprise is an operationalisation of the kind-of-activity unit, as defined by Eurostat. This definition combines two requirements that may conflict: contributing to one activity versus corresponding to one or more operational units. The Netherlands gives priority to the second requirement when operationalising to the statistical enterprise unit.
Births
An enterprise birth is the creation of a new enterprise.

This means that economic criteria for an enterprise must be met: there must be information on employment or turnover of the enterprise. Furthermore, it is important that the enterprise is actually new. The continuation of one or more existing enterprises is therefore not an enterprise birth.

There is no enterprise birth in the case of
- enterprises that are created as a result of a merger, division or demerger;
- takeover or privatisation of part of a company;
- change of name;
- change of legal form;
- change of ownership;
- gradual change of activity;
- relocation;
- reactivation.
Deaths
An enterprise death is the termination of an existing enterprise.

This means that there is no question of a significant part of the activities being continued by another enterprise. An enterprise death only occurs when the enterprise (with the associated employment) no longer belongs to the enterprise population. The best-known example of this is bankruptcy.

There is no enterprise death in the case of:
- enterprises that disappear as a result of a merger, division or demerger;
- takeover or privatisation of part of an enterprise;
- change of name;
- change of legal form;
- change of owner;
- gradual change of activity
- relocation;
- reactivation.
Enterprise population
Persons employed
The number of persons employed consists of:
- employees and directors who are on the payroll;
- employees who are on the payroll of another enterprise or institution, but work in the enterprise's own place of business and as such are in fact part of the workforce (agency staff);
- employed proprietors, partners, associates and cooperating family members;
- agency staff. Loaned personnel (employees on the payroll, but working for another enterprise or institution) are not included under persons employed.
Employees
The number of employees is determined on the basis of the employees on the payroll excluding director-major shareholders. The number of employees per company is calculated from wage tax data from the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration.
Newly born enterprises
Persons employed
The number of persons employed consists of:
- employees and directors who are on the payroll;
- employees who are on the payroll of another enterprise or institution, but work in the enterprise's own place of business and as such are in fact part of the workforce (agency staff);
- employed proprietors, partners, associates and cooperating family members;
- agency staff. Loaned personnel (employees on the payroll, but working for another enterprise or institution) are not included under persons employed.
Employees
The number of employees is determined on the basis of the employees on the payroll excluding director-major shareholders. The number of employees per company is calculated from wage tax data from the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration.
Non-surviving enterprises
Persons employed
The number of persons employed consists of:
- employees and directors who are on the payroll;
- employees who are on the payroll of another enterprise or institution, but work in the enterprise's own place of business and as such are in fact part of the workforce (agency staff);
- employed proprietors, partners, associates and cooperating family members;
- agency staff. Loaned personnel (employees on the payroll, but working for another enterprise or institution) are not included under persons employed.
Employees
The number of employees is determined on the basis of the employees on the payroll excluding director-major shareholders. The number of employees per company is calculated from wage tax data from the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration.